Like a Clean Air Act for our air, and a Clean Water Act for our water, we need a landmark bill to protect the health of our oceans. A law like this is one of the best solutions we have for saving them from the state of silent collapse that they are in. It provides a comprehensive vision for reviving them, and addresses our present ocean management crisis - 140 laws and 20 different agencies are currently in charge, each with diverging goals and conflicting mandates. This chaos makes it nearly impossible to provide the kind of protection we need across the board for our seas.

This bill provides a bold blueprint for the incoming administration and Congress to follow and represents the kind of real action we need to fundamentally reform the way we manage our oceans.

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